I would ask EARN once again to please not "borrow" the .BG top level domain from Internet. Nothing new under the sun: long ago EARN and BITNET maintained their own set of top level domains, the names of which were naturally derived from ISO-3166 like the Internet top level domain names. Of course this caused routing and reachability problems; this was eventually solved when they were merged with the Internet top level domains, with the registration being done by / referred to the registrars of the Internet top level domains. As far as I know BITNET has been sticking to this policy ever since. But rather recently I've seen the problem show up in EARN again, in particular in the former East Block countries. So history repeats itself.... Why don't people want to learn from hard experience? Piet